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Reconstructing AI Ethics Principles: Rawlsian Ethics of Artificial Intelligence
Tekijät: Westerstrand, Salla
Kustantaja: Springer Nature
Kustannuspaikka: DORDRECHT
Julkaisuvuosi: 2024
Journal: Science and Engineering Ethics
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: Science and Engineering Ethics
Lehden akronyymi: SCI ENG ETHICS
Artikkelin numero: 46
Vuosikerta: 30
Numero: 5
Sivujen määrä: 21
ISSN: 1353-3452
eISSN: 1471-5546
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-024-00507-y
Verkko-osoite: http://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-024-00507-y
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/458902781
The popularisation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) technologies has sparked discussion about their ethical implications. This development has forced governmental organisations, NGOs, and private companies to react and draft ethics guidelines for future development of ethical AI systems. Whereas many ethics guidelines address values familiar to ethicists, they seem to lack in ethical justifications. Furthermore, most tend to neglect the impact of AI on democracy, governance, and public deliberation. Existing research suggest, however, that AI can threaten key elements of western democracies that are ethically relevant. In this paper, Rawls's theory of justice is applied to draft a set of guidelines for organisations and policy-makers to guide AI development towards a more ethical direction. The goal is to contribute to the broadening of the discussion on AI ethics by exploring the possibility of constructing AI ethics guidelines that are philosophically justified and take a broader perspective of societal justice. The paper discusses how Rawls's theory of justice as fairness and its key concepts relate to the ongoing developments in AI ethics and gives a proposition of how principles that offer a foundation for operationalising AI ethics in practice could look like if aligned with Rawls's theory of justice as fairness.
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Funding Open Access funding provided by University of Turku (including Turku University Central Hospital).
